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Teaching Pro's Education Fund

Selection Criteria

1. The applicant must be either USPTA or USPTR certified and must be a full time teaching professional.
2. Through their facility, the applicant must host a minimum of three USTA programs, one of which must be USTA Jr. Team Tennis.
3. Only training offered by either the USPTA, USPTR or USTA qualifies for the grant.
4. Applications must included documentation that describes the training event (e.g. a brochure) and a short explanation (approximately 250 words) explaining why the applicant would like to attend the event.

Expectations

1. Following completion of the training, the tennis professional must write a short narrative report (approximately 250 words) on what new information was obtained at the training that can be passed on to other teaching professionals. This report must be submitted to the ATA within one month from the date of the training event.
2. For reimbursement, all receipts must be submitted to the ATA within one month from the date of the training event.

A pro may submit multiple applications, but may only receive one grant through this program. The maximum amount that an application can receive to attend a training event is $500. A facility may only receive two awards through this program and the awards cannot be for the facility tennis professionals to attend the same training event. It is anticipated that $1500 will be available in 2012 for this statewide initiative.